What was James Cagney’s last movie?
James Cagney’s last movie was Ragtime (1981).
George Lucas’s last film as a director was Star Wars (1977).
Dr. Strangelove was based on a novel, Red Alert, by Peter George.
John Wayne played the centurion at the crucifixion in The Greatest Story Ever Told. His only line was, “Truly, this was the Son of God.” The movie was director George Stevens’s version of the life of Christ.
Before he met Bette Joan Perske (aka Lauren Bacall), he had been married three times: first, to Helen Menken, then to Mary Philips, both actresses. These marriages had ended in divorce. When he met Bacall on the set of To Have and Have Not (1944), he was married to Mayo Methot.
No. W. C. Fields’s gravestone does not read, “On the whole, I’d rather be in Philadelphia” In the first place, he isn’t in a grave: his ashes are housed in a vault. Second, the epitaph doesn’t appear there. Third, it wasn’t his joke. The line first appeared in the magazine Vanity Fair in the 1920s….
Catherine Scorsese, appeared in four movies directed by Martin Scorsese: Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (1968), Mean Streets (1973), The King of Comedy (1983), and Goodfellas (1990).